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In The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Kingston explores women's silence throughout the memoir. The memoir explores Kingston’s journey from childhood through adulthood in an effort to find her own voice. Kingston tells us the stories that her mother told her as a young child; the reader sees through these stories that the women in China do not have a voice. Brave Orchid (Kingston's mother) is voiceless in America, Brave Orchid does not speak english and feels disconnected from her unfamiliar

Angelou, feminist writer. She covers topics about slavery, poverty, and feminism in her works. One of her most famous poems, Phenomenal Woman, addresses the problems within the conventional standards during this time period. Through symbolism, Maya Angelou focuses on the theme of female identity challenging the mid 1900s conventional standards of beauty in Phenomenal Woman. Throughout Maya Angelou’s poem, she dismisses the idea of one ideal beauty. Continuously she lists her non physical attributes that

In Passing, Clare Kendry ‘passes’ for a white woman to marry a white man and, in masking her identity, loses touch with her African-American roots. Irene describes Clare as “selfish, and cold, and hard. And yet she had, too, a strange capacity of transforming warmth and passion, verging sometimes almost on theatrical heroics” (Larsen 10). Clare is charming, attractive and there’s something uncanny about her stare. She is no angel, but she does carry herself differently than the other women of her

In a field that is dominated by men, Wollstonecraft’s arguments breathe fresh air into many of the patriarchal values present in other philosopher’s works such as Rousseau’s Emile. Wollstonecraft’s 1792 essay titled “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” is arguably the “manifesto” of western feminist thought. Her essay explores how women are subordinate to men and what can be done to fix this gender based discrimination. Throughout the essay, she challenges ideas of discrimination in the education

and describes what it truly means to be a Woman Warrior (Kingston). Her tenacious mother, Brave Orchid, is one example of a real life Woman Warrior, going through struggles of her own in China, and after her immigration to the U.S. In Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel The Woman Warrior, Kingston depicts the historical struggle and eventual triumph of Chinese women through the stories and actions of legendary Women Warriors such as Fa Mu Lan, and real life Woman Warriors such as Brave

Aughterson, Kate. “Physiology – Introduction.” Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook: Constructions of Femininity in England. Ed. Kate Aughterson. London: Routledge, 1995. Print. Aughterson argues that most of what Renaissance society knew about human biology was based on the work of Aristotle and Galen. She also argues that both biology and religion described women as being a lesser being than men. She successfully explains the difference between Aristotle’s philosophical and Galen physiological explanation

their own take on the song “I Got a Woman.” As you listen to both versions, you notice the similarities and differences between the tones, tempo, vocal quality’s, instruments, etc. While these two songs were great hits, you can notice the difference in the music, due to the time frame they were made during and the artist’s different styles of music. When compared to Elvis Presley’s take, Ray Charles had a complete different approach on his song, “I Got a Woman”. In fact, Kanye West sampled lyrics

towards women. The attention getter in the first paragraph was directed to Mollie’s appearance. In If I Were a Man, “Mollie was “true to type.” She was a beautiful instance of what is reverentially called “a true woman.” Little, of course- no true woman may be big. Pretty, of course- no true woman could possibly be plain” (Negri 50). According to this quote, it is basically

Is Barbie the ideal woman? For generations she’s been the doll that little girls have aspired to be–a party girl, career woman and bathing beauty all wrapped into one . In Marge Piercy’s poem entitled "Barbie Doll," the title underscores the theme of the poem, which is that girls are ultimately and fatally entrapped by society’s narrow definitions of feminine behavior and beauty. By comparing the young lady in the poem to a Barbie doll, the author reveals the irony of the title. In the poem, the

gendered ideals and their alternative outcomes of the short story “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros. In this short story we have the protagonist by the name of Cleófilas whose father has agreed to let Juan Pedro Martínez Sánchez take his daughter for a bride. Cleófilas is a traditional Méxican women and her husband was from “the other side”, Texas. Juan Pedro Martínez Sánchez later becomes her abusive, unfaithful husband. “Woman Hollering Creek” recreates the representation of La Llorona except